Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-11-02
JEDGE WAxeM kS.,OAD.
He Writes from Frankfort, the Homo OF
the Rothschilds.
Special Correspondence

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Editor Thar is said to be more money to
the squGr foot in this town than emmy
other en- the face of Gods green earth,
and reckon that's one reason that come
this way.
Everybody knos that this is the startin
pint for the Rothchlds family, and
Rothchilds and rocks is snonomuss
terms, and l wisht to gracious WaXem
was, EVERY time | look over my account
book, betwiXt this and the day we bid
farewell to all our friends, and put Way
back behind us. We have saw the house
whar the origanel Rothchild first squalied
in his mothers arms, and | was disap-
pintcd in it. I thought we would see
| little one story log cabin like the one on
the banks OF the river, whar your umbel
servent first opened his eyes on Libberty
and the free air of republican institutions;
but instid of that we found CRATE big
| five story house, plenty good enough for
congressman to live in in Washington,
and shown evidents that Rothchild was
| not only born with II silver spoon in his
! mouth, but that his parents had plenty
OF cash to git him another one with, in
case he lost the first one.
Thars good many elegant dwellin
houses here and some of the finest air ock-
upied bv Americans, so I am told. l
didn't ask who they was, because i think
an American citizen, material er material
lied, that goes back on this country,
whar he makes his money and gifts his
start, amt wuth maxim inquiries fer.
Frankfurt has got a good many old
| German, narrer fronted houses, in little
streets, like they have in Naples, but the
| loot OF progress is kickin them out of the
way, and i'll flew yers the town will look
like quarter section of Milwaukee err
| Cincinnati. Thars good many fount-
! ings also, and one has got n lion on the
top of it, that looks more like yore Teller
! edditor, Whitelaw Reid, Esq, of The
| New York Tribune, than any picter ev-
yer seen OF him in the comic papers. |
thought at first the artist had modelled
his lions mouth from Whitelaws mus
fash, because l knowed Whitelaw had
! been over here severl times, like most ed
itors and other capitalists has been, but
/ when ] seen the dat" was about 400 yers
old give up that notion.
We come to this pint by way of Lipe-
sick and other towns, and ali along the
road l notist what | had notist gon
through AuStry-namcly to wit, that
while the farmin intcrust was kccrfully
looked after and crops was fine, the prin-
ciple agricultural impliIlcnts was vim
men, and through hundreds of miles of
/ "HN't olll illOtttIl Improve
! mCntS seen war one or two steam thraShin
lnasheeus. / don't believe thars Il mower
or reaper on the American pattern in
Germany, but ef thar is it must be kept
III dime museum fer show purposes |
throw out these hints to our American
manufacturers free Of charge, and hope
they will embrace ther opportunities.
We run agin the tirents heel onct more
in Lipesick. At every hotel we have
stonpcd at sinsc leavin Italy we have had
to give our names addresses, time of de-
parture, Occupation, etsetry, and so forth,
to the clerk, film out printed blank,
Witch lie had 70 turn over to the authOri-
ties. At first thought it was spcShal
mark Of onner to ne; and bein u member
of the national legislator of the greatest
republic on earth, that the ranein sovrns
OF the continent, whose deminyuns | was
soJernin in temporarily, was maxim these
! inquiries to know how long | was gon to
| be in town, SOS they might invite me to
| take dinner with them and git introduced
! to Their trends. But time and Mandy
! soon learned me different, and | seen that
| 1t was only the tirent's heel in another
form, and that cur movements war ben
| spied out and as free born sitizens, we
was bein looked at with suspicion by these
eject dinastys WASHES and minyuns
| Well as ! was sayin, at Lipesicl, when
| the clerk asst me the ushule questions, and
l skipped most of EN-, he come back and
wanted to know how long we was gon to
stay IN the town, because ef we was goin
to stay longer than three days, it would
cost us fifteen cents a day eXtry, which
was the amount the authoritys charged
fer u stranger to rename in Lipesick CIV
very day over three days. l was utterly
dumfouuGed ut this faZe Of tieranny and
l looked it at the clerk.
"Gung man. says | to him, toweriu
up like Gulliver on his travels among
the Lilly pods, ''you aint to blaim fer this
Indignantly hcepcd on a free and untram-
! eied sitizcn OF the grateSt republic on
earth, and amt blaimin you; but yOrc
country Is, and l raise in my place on this
tlCre To cast defiance in the very nostrils
/ of oprcssCrs and teran;s, and to state
that while | am within To cerculait $40 er
SO day OF American money in yore
midst, fer fun, and so forth He be cscn-
shally burned CT | give up single cent
fer tribute and You can tell yorc author
itys that fer me, and eff they don't be-
leave it they can so to England fer refer
cncc, under date of l1..J. That's the Kind
OF waller jackets nest we air, and don't
yon forget it. Lipcsick amt worth fifteen
| cents day anyway, and I'll Civ twict
/ that much TO have our baCQidge carried
down to the train in fifteen minutes"
Don't You do nothin of the sort" saws
Mandy, coming in to the fight and grab
bin the clerk 9 arm; Jest shet the dorc
and let the American eagle scream; it'll
com down cf il amt fed. l want to stay
in this fifteen cent town about two DAYS,
and III take two for quarter" and with
that she began to pun out her purse, but
the clerk smiled and said it would be oil
ri9At anyway, fer he reported long visit
guests as staying three days only and
then Inurkin them OF.
Mr.. editor, is it emmy wonder that
these eject dluastys of Europe air gittin
eteeter every yer?
l was down in Strassburg befoar we
come to Frankfurt, and Strassburg looks
like war. The whole town is full Of sol
Jers--l1, COO is the number-ard they Dir
drilliu and marchin cvvery hour in the
day. The place is half German and half
French, aud you can feel all the time that
you Gir in q conl.ered City. One of the
sinCS If it is that the German authorities
have changed the French names of the
streets 10 German names. not scratCliD